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JAMES D. FRANKLIN, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, lASSIGNOR TO IRA RICHARDS & CO., OF SAME PLAGE. i

.teem P11-tm No. 74,072, ma February 4, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT UilA SEGURING BOOKS EYES T0 CARDS.

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES D. FnANKL'IN, of Attleborough, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusette, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Carding Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled iuthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure lvrepresents an end view of a card, to which hooks and eyes are secured in my improved manner.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same.

Figure 3 is'. plan or top view of the same.

Figure 4 is an inverted plan view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new method of securing hooks and eyes to paper, and its object is to attach the same in such a manner that the least possible' amount of paper will be used to hold a given quantity of hooks i and eyes.

i The invention consist-sin fitting the eyes through the paper, so that they project from 'both sides of the same, and in then, securing hooks to the projecting parts of the eyes, so that thus, hooks will be secured to both The cards will thus be enabled to hold four times as many hooks and eyes as they did by sides of the paper. thc ordinary methods, and a great saving of paper will be experienced, as well us of paoking-boxes, as the latter can be smaller, for the same number of hooks and eyes, than they could heretofore be made.

A, in the drawing, represents aporton ot' a card to which the hooks und eyes are to be secured. a a are the\cyes b Ithe hooks. Four eyes and four hooks nre required to make one group, as shown. Two eyes, a a, are tted through the card, parallel to each other, and about as far apart as the hooks are wide, as shown in iig. 4. The two other eyes a. a' of the group are fitted through the paper so as to be et right angles to the eyes, L a, as shown. To that 'side of the card from which the bodies ofthe eyes project, as shown in iig. 3, are secured two hooks, b b, which are, with their bills and bodies, pushed through the eyes, a' a', as is clearly shown in figs. 1 and 3, the bends ofthe hooks 6 beingheld between the eyes a a, es shown. To the opposite side of the card are secured twohooks, b by having their shanksheld between tbe ends of the eyes a', respectively, while their bends ,are held between the eyes a a, as shown in iig. 4. Thus four eyes and fourhooks are secured to upiece of paper, upon which, by the ordinary method .new in use, not more than one hook and one eye could be secured. i

It is evident that the hooks may, if desired, be secured on one side ofthe paper only, the other side being left empty.

Having thus described my invention, Hooks and eyes secured to cards, by passing t und fastening the hooks to their ends and bodies, on one or whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

he eyes through the card so as to project on both sides thereof,

both sides of thecard, substantially as set forth.

JAMES D. FRANKLI'N.

Witnesses F. Gr.` Wumrnr, E. IRA. Bremens. 

